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WHEN politicians seek to use science as a facade of authority, scientists need to watch out for the backlash.
As the government has plunged Britain into the crisis of being among the worst-hit countries in the world during the Covid-19 pandemic, its members have repeated the mantra again and again that they are being “led by science.”
After the much feted turn away from experts, this change in the language of authority has been remarked upon as a change in public mood caused by the unprecedented crisis.
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